Vision

Building a world where each of us can live “our own story”.

Mission

To provide a platform that empowers individuals to visualize
their knowledge, skills, and experience,
and connect them to all people that require them.

Value

Leadership

Board of Directors

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  Ayumu Suzuki / Chief Executive Officer

  Graduated the Waseda University School of Law. Joined Recruit then experienced product planning and sales in HR and bridal businesses as well as new business development in Ad-technology. Moved to the overseas business planning division at Recruit Holdings then lead global-governance, reorganization, market research, and group company support. Joined coconala inc. in May 2016.

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  Akiyuki Minami / Director
  Representative Director of coconala skill partners, Inc

  Graduated Keio University. MBA of Oxford. After gaining experience as a financial analyst at Sumitomo Bank (currently SMBC), joined Advantage Partners, then engaged in five buyout projects in seven years. Meanwhile founded two NPOs named Blastbeat and Nimaime-no-Meishi (your 2nd business card). Founding member and CEO of WelSelf inc. (currently coconala inc.) since Jan 2012. Director of the Sharing Economy Association Japan.

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  Masahide Koike / Outside Director

  As Executive Vice President at CyberAgent, Inc., he was responsible for launching and scaling various media platform models, including Ameba and ABEMA, as well as other businesses such as gaming. Subsequently, he founded Gratch Scaling Inc. and assumed the role of President and CEO.

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  Kentaro Yadomi / Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

  Certified Public Accountant. After joining KPMG AZSA (now KPMG AZSA LLC), he was engaged in accounting audits based on Japanese GAAP, U.S. GAAP, and IFRS, as well as financial due diligence work related to domestic and international M&A and business restructuring support. Auditor of our company since March 2017.

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  Kenichi Imamura / Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

  At Recruit Co., Ltd., he served as Head of Corporate Planning and Head of Human Resources, overseeing a wide range of HR functions, including system design, as well as leading management and overseas business development for the holding company. He later became Executive Officer and Head of Human Resources at Z Holdings Corporation before assuming the role of Chief People Officer (CPO) at ispace, Inc.

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  Yuka Hattori / Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

  After working at Recruit Co., Ltd. in human resources and business development, established Inclusion Japan Inc. which provides incubation services and became its representative director. Auditor of our company since August 2015.

Management Team

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  Kanako Takeshita / Executive Officer, VP of Product Management

  After graduating from Waseda University, joined Softbank Human Capital Corporation as a new graduate. She worked as a marketer at CyberAgent Group, a planner and producer of social games, and then became a business manager. She then worked as an executive officer of an AI company.
  Joined coconala Inc. in 2020.

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  Moto Hirano / Executive Officer, VP of Legal Media

  After graduating from the College of Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University, joined Recruit in 2008 then experienced sales & marketing, store promotion, Ad-technology as well as planning and development of online education business. Moved to Recruit Holdings then led new business development. Joined coconala Inc. in July 2017.

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  Masatoshi Murakami / Executive Officer, VP of Product Engineering

  Master’s degree of computer science and intelligent systems at the Graduate School of Engineering of Osaka Prefecture University. From 2007 to 2014, engaged in advanced research in enterprise system development at the Systems development lab of Hitachi, Ltd. After that, experienced multiple web service developments as an engineering leader including CTO of Evelist inc.. Joined coconala Inc. in Jun 2019.

• VP of Finance

  Gen Tanaka

• VP of Platform Engineering

  Noriaki Utsunomiya

• Head of Technology

  Hiroshi Kanja

• Head of Information

  Yuta Kawasaki

• Head of Customer Service

  Shoichi Komai

• Head of Marketing

  Keita Shimizu

• Head of Design

  Takumi Tonosaki

Adviser

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  Jun Sakaki / Adviser

  Graduated from Keio University Graduate School and completed a master’s program at Stanford University. Engaged in strategy consulting at Boston Consulting Group and AlixPartners. Appointed President and CEO of Ikyu Corporation in 2016, and currently serves as an Executive Officer at LY Corporation. Advisor to our company since August 2023.

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